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Japan and Jordan and elsewhere.
With all those royals coming to Luxembourg, can international
attention be far behind?
“It’s good for Luxembourg,” said Nadine Chenet, a 46-year
-old street cleaner who was picking up cigarette butts with
pincers in front of the grand ducal palace. “Many people
will come now.”
Besides, she just plain likes the royal family, she said:
They give a good impression of the country.
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That’s a sentiment common in Luxembourg. To all appearances,
the bride and groom are a lovely couple. He is 30, with dark
hair and an immaculate beard. She is 28, blonde and smiling.
In public appearances, including at the London Olympics, they
have appeared besotted with each other.
According to biographies distributed by the royal court, each
has an array of interests befitting those who are to the
manner born.
Guillaume speaks four languages, has studied international
politics, is a lieutenant colonel in the Luxembourg army (a
force of 900 soldiers), and has been engaged in humanitarian
work in other countries, including Nepal. The duchess-to-be
has studied the influence of German romanticism on Russian
romanticism, plays piano and violin, swims, skis, and says
she reads three books at a time.
In the language department, she already speaks French and
German — two of Luxembourg’s three official languages —
and, perhaps more importantly, is studying the third, which
is called Luxembourgish. She plans to renounce her Belgian
citizenship in order to become, eventually, Luxembourg’s
grand duchess.
